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'STATE, O I:ol:NritY. AUTHENTIC COPT 14 THE REPORT OF TIIE LORDS SECHE CO'AIMITTEE. By the LORDs"Coixlmrr-rcEs appointed a Secret 'Cornmittoe to eximilie into the Matter of the Papers . presetieed to this House, in a Sealed _Bag, I , y the cumin:lt'd of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, and to report ti, the 310use,-as thug shall see Cause ; and to whom were referred additional Papeq,,(s.P.aled tip), alto presented to the House ,by - the command 'of his Royal Highness the-PRINct REGENT : ORDEEED REPuItT, Thit the Committee have iiroceeded td exa mine the Papers so referred to them. In execution of this duty they , have proceeded, in the first place, to consider such of the said Pa pers as contained information as to the state of • those parts of England in which the eitcomstances `detailed in the two Reports of the furmerCom-' - mit'tees appear to have arisen. In the last of those Reports, presented to ?he Howe on• the 12th of June last, it wai'represent ed that the period of a general rising, of which the intention and object were stated in the Re portS,.appenred to have been fixed for as early a day as possible after the disenssioris of an ekpectecl - Motion for Reform in Parliament that Notting ham appeared to. have been intended as the head- - . - quarters, upon which a part of the Insurgents were to march in the first instance and that they expected to be joined there, and on their march • towards London, by other bodies, with such arms as they might have alteady provided, or mig,ht procure by force Irons private houses, or from th e different dep6ts or barracks, of which the attack • was proposed. That conturrent information from many quarters confirmed the expectation of a ge neral rising about the time above mentioned, but that it 'teas subsequently postponed to the 9th or 10th of June, for which vat ioni,reasons hail been assigned. The Report added, that the latest in telligence from those quarters hail niade it highly probable that the same causes which had at that time thwarted the execution of those desperate, d , :signs; viz.. the vigilance of the Government, the great activity and'intelligence of the Magistrates, the ready assistance afforded under their orders by the regular troops and yeomanry, the prompt and efficient arrangements of the officers encrusted svith that service, the knowledge which had from time to time been obtained of the plans of the Oisaffected, and the co ntegnent art tist and con finement of the leading agitators, would occasion A still further postponement of their atrocious plans.* It now appears, that in the night of the oth of June last, a rising took place in Derbyshire, headed by a person who •went for that pmpose from Nottineham, and was therefore called " the Nottingham Captain.'' The lusurgen:s were not formidable for their numbers, but they were ac tuated by an atrocious spirit. Several .of them had fire-arms, otheri had pikes previously prepared for.the purpose; and as they atheenced towards Nottingham, they plundered. several .honsee of, • arms, and in one instance a minder was rot-emit ted. They compelled some persons to join tbem, .and endeavoured to compel others by threats of • violence, and- particolarly by the terror of the murder which had been Cc Min etl;. and teey proposed to reach Nottingham early in the morn ing of the 10th of June, a4.d to surprize the mili tary in their barracks ; hoping thus to become masters of the town, and to be joined by consi• derable numbers there, and .by a party which they expected would be assembled in Nottingham forest, and which actually did assemble at that place, as after stated. The disposition to plun der, the resistance they met with, and other cir cumstances, so delayed their march, that they had not arrived near the place of destination at a late hour in the 'Doming ; and the country being alarnnd, a military force was assembled to oppose them, -The language used by many persons engaged in this enterprise, and particularly by their leaders, leaves no room to doubt that their °V cts were the overthrow of the established Government an d laws; extravagant as those objects were, when compared with the inadequate means which they possessed. lo the course of their march, nrany of their body Mt alarmed at the atrocious projects in which they had engaged, which had actually test to a cruel and deliberate murder ; they found that their confederates had not arrived to their support, 'as they had been led to - expect ; and in the villages through which they passed, a strong indisposition being manifested towards their carise and projects, some of them threw away their pikes and retired, before the military force ap peared ; And on the first . show of that force the rest dispersed, their leeiders attempting in vain to rally them, many_ of them were taken prisoners, and many guns and pikes were seized.. • This insetrrection, of small importance iu self, is •a subject of material cousideretioo, as it was manifestly in consequence of measures detail ed in Ole two Reports above mentioned,‘ and ap pears in have been a I s,-t of the general rising proposed to take effect on the 9:h or 10th ut June, as stated in the last of - those Reports. • • At the Assizes at Derby, in the month of July following, the Grand .fury found hills of indict ' illellt for high treason against 45 of the persons charged. with having -been engaged in this insur rection ; and several of those persons having been - taken, were artaigned upon the iudietinent before a Special Commission issued for that purpose, which sat a't Derby in the month of October fol lowing. polar of the yr iDcipai offenders were se parately tried and convicted ; three of them were executed, and the capital punistimeot of the fourth teas remitted on condition of transporta tion. The conviction of these four induced nine teen of the other persons indicted, whoSe conduct had been deemed in the next degree most crimi nal, to withdraw their pleas of not guilty, and to plead guilty to the indictment, its hopes of thus avoiding a capital punishment ; and the sentence of death on these persons wa - s afterwards remit ted, on. different conditions. Against all. the other persons indicted who were in custody, the Law Office' s of the {Crown declined producing any evi dence, and. th iv were accordingly acqu;tted. Tltc, rest of tlpe per:ou', inclip,fej fled from justice, and have not yet been taken. Prom the evidence given at the trials at Derby, it appeared that the Derbyshire Insurgents had expected a considerable reinforcement from this part of Yorkshire, 'believing that a i general rising.would take place at the time to be fixed for I that purpose; and 'it appears likewise, that in Yorkshire, as well as in all the other districts where these designs were carrying on, great reliance has uniformly been placed upon the hope of powerful support and'co-operation from London, bowevor erroneous such an expectation may have been, with respect to the extent to which it was supposed to have existed The Committee have the satisfaction of delivering it as their decided opinion, that not only in the country in general, but in those districts where the desiglis of the disaffected were most actively and unremittingly pursued, the great body .7f the people have remained untainted even during the pe riods of the greatest internal difficulty and distress. The arrests and trials- which have taken place, and the de- I ielopement of the designs of the leaders ~f the disrtffea r d, together with the continued act city anit vigilance of the Magistrates and of the Government, must have had the salts- tary effect of checking the progress of disaffection, where it existed; and , the improved state of the country, and the in creased employment now afforded to the labouring classes,' have contributed to render those WhO were most open to se duction, less disposed to embrace the desperate measures which the pressure of distress might have led theM to hazard. Some of the persons engaged in these projects, particularly in London, are still active, and appear determined to perse vere, though with decreasing numbers and resources. It ap pears, therefore, to the Committee ' that the continu e d vigi lance of Government, and of the Magistrates in the several districts which have been !post disturbed, will be necessary. Having thus taken a view of the state of the Country in the disturbed districts; from the Feriod descril)cd in the Report made to the House towards the close of the last Session of Parliament, the Committee .have proceeded to examine such of the papers referred to them as relate to the arrests of several persons under warrants issued by one of his Ma jesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the detention of se veral of the persons so arrested under the authority of two Acts passed in the last Session of Parli sment, to empower his Majesty to secure and detai❑ such persons as his Majesty shkta suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government. With r,!!„Yeet to those against whom bills of indictment were found by the different Grand juries, and those who have been brought to trial or !twee fled from justice, the Committee conceive that it is unnecessary for them to. make any particular statement. Warrants - were issued by the Secretary of State against ten persons who have not been tal.en. Forty-four persons appear to have been arrest ed under warrants of the Secretary of State, on suspicion of High Treasonovhci have not been brought to trial; of these, seven were discharged on examination, without any subse quent warrant of detention. Ag a inst 37, warrants of de tention, on suspicion of High Treason, *ere issued by the Secretary of State ; but one, who was finally committed; MO %sum after released ;, another was soon discharged on account of illness ; and a third ,died in prison. The grounds upon which those warrants were issued have been asserally exantined by the Committee; on that exaiyaination it has appeared to the Committee, that all these arrests and de_! tendons have been fully justified by the various circumstances under which they have taken place; and in no case does any ' warrant of detention appear to,have been issued except in consequence of infpqnuiun upon oath. It appears to the C omm i ttee, t h at a ll the persons who were so arrested, and detained, and *lto were not prosecuted, have been at different times discharged, as the slate of the country, and the circumstances attending the several trials which had taken place, were judged to permit. The Committee mider4tand that, tip to a certain period, expectations were entertained of being able to bring to trial a large proportion of the persons so arrested and detained, hu that these expectations have from time to time beet) unavoid• ably reliuquished. b o th e whole, therefnre, it has appeared to the Committee, that the Goverument, iu (he esPecti thin of the powers vested in-"it by the two. Acts before mentioned, has acted with due discretion and moderation"; and as far as appears to the Com mitte, the Magistrates in the several disturbed districts have by their activity and vigilance, coil :ributed materially to the preservation of the pub lic peace. The Tragedy of THE APPEAL, which, to the credit of the taste of the . Manager at Edinburgh, has been represented, and very successfully, in that• City, was written by 1111% GALT,• who has sliewn great dramatic powers in several other corn positions If .our London Managers had qua/ taste they would long siuce have brought forward this work, and others, from the same author, as they hare been published wine time. - • The fact of this actual insurrection first proved to the sa - - tisfattion of a most retpectable Grand .fury of the County of Derby, who found the hill of indictment, and afterwards proved in open Court, to the satisfaction of the several Juries ss,vorn on the four several trials of the persons ceir sicted; proved also by the acknowledgment of the same by these who withdrew their pleas dt Not Guilty and pleaded Guilty to the indictment, and. thus snbrnitted theinsciveS to th e m erc y e ilh e ceewe,—eppear to the Committee to !ewe established. beyond the possibility of a doubt, the credit due' to the information mentioned in the last Itepart, respecting the plans of more extended insurrection, Which had pre viously been concerted, and resm , eting the postponement of these plans to the -9th'sr 10th of 11Ese. Eut this insurrection is Derbyshire was not the only cir turns:lan& occurring, sin; the period described in the last of ttiestwo - Reports before mentioned, which demonstrates the correctness. of the information on which the Committee who of ide the. Report proceeded, in representing such a general rising to have beets letended, and to have been postponed; and that Nottingham wes the head-quarters upon which a part 'of- the insurgents were to marclein-the first inStaece ; and that t hey were expected to be joined , there by insurgents Irony.-different qtlarters. Early in the some night on which the Derbyshire insnr gents began /heir operations, th e t own o f N ott i ng h am was in a state est.censiderable agitation. It appears from the evi dence given upon the trials at Derby, that during the .march of the Derbyshire insurgents towards Nottingham, one of their leaders, afterwards convicted - of High Treason, was seat forwards on horseback to obtain intelligence. On his •rettern to the main body of the DerbyStire insurgents, it was pretended that the state of Nottingham waS favourable to their designs; the actual state of Nottingham and its neigh heurhood appears. from the evidence givers on lite trials at Derby. In the night of the 9th of" Julie, some persons, to tre In number about one hundred, had assembled otr this Rucc COlirse in Nottingham Forest, where the Der byeliire insuirgOits, according to their original plan, were to have arrived at an early hour on . the morning of the lOth, ,and expected to he joined .by such a party. This party Was seen about twelve at night; they were drawn up io line, two jeep, and a part of them armed with pikes or poles. They re mained assembled on the Race-ground until-past two o'clock iuthe morning, about which time they dispersed. Some ap pearances of disturbance in the town of Nottingham early in the night of the Sth, induced the Magistrates to send for a military force from the barracks; and order brine: quickly restored, the military returned tolheir barracks ; and were not again called out until the morning of the loth, when they were required to assist in dispersing the Derbyshire in surgents, who were then on their march. • Connected with these disturbances" in Derbyshire and Not tihghantshire, a disposition to similar eiinduct seas manifested in a part of the li est Riding of Yorkshire. On the f;tb of June a meeting of Delegates was assembled at a place called Thornhill Lees - , near Huddersfield; and at this meeting it .vas understood, that the time to be timid for a general sign); would be anniitinced. The persons assembled at that Meeting were surprised by the Magistrates, assist ed by a military hare, and smile were taken into cus tody. This arrest deranged the plans of the disaffected ; and the greater part of the districts in that part of York shire, in which a general rising had beets proposed. re mained quiet. But in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, in the night of the Bth of June, a considerable body assembled, some with fire-arms, and others with scythes fixed on poles, and proceeded to various.ontrages, plundering houses for arms, and firing on the Head Constable of Huddersfield, and upon a person of the Yeomanry Cavalry, who went out of the town to learn their objects. Indictments were preferred both for the felonies and the burglaries, at the Assizes at York, in the month of July. The facts of the ontraees there committed appear to have been established by the finding of the bills by the Grand .Jury; but sutficie'nt evidence was not produced on the trial to bring the echoes house to any indivi dual's. .31>s+.i->.s~am~-ra~~ LOTTERY Dll.l.wi NFAT WEDNEsDAY--THREE PRIZES OF Z'.3o wo—ONE HUNDRED CAPITALS— TWE EVE 11PES OF PORT. TO' co RR ENPONDENT. We cannot offer a stronger apology to our numei•ons Oirt-e -spondents fur the delay of their Favours, than the neces sity of diyirling the Leper from, otir•vaingblr rtiend„ LAN FRANC ',see our First Page), and postponing the remainder till to-morrow. THEATRICAI. REGISTEP. PerArmett Last Night. . • THEATRE RoTAL, Dnurty-1,... 7 —(12th tiniej, The tride of Abydos : Selim, Mr. Kean ; Z u li e l ia , Mrs. Maillya. After which, The komp. THEATRE RovA L, CoVENT - GARMIN.—(2(I time), : Mir van, Mr. Braliani ; Znunt, Miss Steplakii. After wbidi, The Illustrious Traveller. ARRIVED-2 Waterford, 2 Gottenhargh. D U —1 Guern3ey and Jersey, 1 Gottenburgh, 1 Hamburgb. PRICE 0 THIS DAY AT r ' 3 per Cent. Rea., SOH 5 per Cent. Cons. 79li , 4 per Cents. - 5 - per Cent. N. Ann.:... 106Ji Bank L. Ann.... ioi 15-ialis F STOCKS •ivEt.vg owict.ficK. 1 Itidia Bonds 9.55. "63:Ipt. Exch. Bills 2d 15s. 178. pr. Ditto, 21d Cons. for Account. 7911 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, ‘;11 minutes after 5. j Evening, 46 minutes after 5. THE SUN. SOLE:NI QUIS DICEIIII FAI.SUM AUDEAT LONDON, T I ✓EDNESD.4Y, FEBRUARY 25, 1818. The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. The last intelligence from Sweden stares, that " the cut-purse of the Empire' and the Rnle," has succeeded the late Usurper, and 'has proclaimed himself King of that Coueary ! !,! Mc Morning Chronicle, which is always disposed to throw ri dicule upon legitimate Authority, in referring to our objections to the intrusion of a low-born Alien on the Government of an ancient nation, said " this is a seasonable exposition-of the sen timents of a part, at least, of the British Cabi net." We trust, however, that our sentiments on the subject are supported by the whole of the British 'Cabinet, for having.restored the lawful King of France to his Throne, it is impossible that it should not he adverse to the eleva tion of an obtrusive Usurper. '' But," says The Chronicle, " a nation is only disgraced by hav ing a :Sovereign forced upon them .by foreign Bayonet's." And was not the Ex-Serjeant Bur( 4 - tv,knorTe forced upon Sweden by the (error of French army, which frightened the late Dotard, the DULC SULIURMANIA, WllO usurped the throne of his Nephew, au& compelled hint to de nominate the Serjeant CROW N PRINCE ? Is it to be supposed that though the late -King, as he called himself, might usurp the throne himself, he could voluntarily sub:ait to disgrace his family, and insult the Swedish nation, by the appointment of such a revolutionary upstart as his Successor ? In fact, the timid Dotard *as ensnared by French intrigue, and obliged to submit to the terrors of a French army, and in effect therefore, as to the Swedish. Nation, '' a Sovereign was forced upon them by foreign Bayonets." But what will The Chroniclesay to the case of Norway,which this very BERNADOTTE wrested from its lawful Sovereign, contrary lathe wisitss of the People, who anxiously cleiired to remain attached to Denmark; and ido lized the CrtowN l'articß of that Countty " Great Wits have short memories ;" but as The Chronicle has do such proverbial plea in its favour, and is rather supported by the converse of the proposition, it cannot have forgotten thi; glaring act of unjust usurpation; and then what becomes of its consistency when it attempts to justify Ow elevation of a French Adventurer over an insulter(, oppressed, and, we trust, an indignant People ? But the Swedes ought to be left to themselves, on this most important and interesting . opportunity, to assert their own rights and vindicate their na tional character. No other Governracnt should interfere ; and if any other should disgrace itself by attempting to' t . ivet the chains thrown Oyer Sweden by a Rev,4otiOnary Ruffian, it must take the consequence of .supporting principles that may finally lead to its own destroctinn. Though . we yesterday inserted a comprehensive abstract * of The Report of the Secret Committee of tire House of Lords, yet as it is a National Document, we deeM it our duty to give it this day in its fid! P.trligtrtentary extent, It is so complete an, exposition of the dangers that might ' have arisen -if Government and the AlogistracY had not stopped the evil in due time, that none hut the Factious and the Seditious, except infleed fools and idiots, can ,blame Ministers for *the Nil which theymeted on the occasion, or conceive that they are not entitled to'the grmitude of all well disposed people, . ; A mongrel Paper of this day., w!,ieli scents to affect impartiality because it pours' its abuse without discrimination, deirowi7 ,t natt. - S fafA C( • ‘Vi " the OVEItTI-11:0it OF THE CON:;T1itY 1101,:-. r knOW not.whetr:.'r most to pity or desii: s Politicians, butt ice sincerity stish that they become more enlightenea in their undersrani"' less malignant in their peislions, That wtHild 7 assume a vivitie if they have it ti ° ,,e and bestow intit praise on those who stispelidedl° forms, to prescrve th e iubstanec, of our We ll , maple Constitution." , • is the Se , CITY, l „ /NE O'CLOCK .—Prichiv next tling day for the long•pentling and fioctooti"i Account in Consols. '[tie market IS at. P reieli o stßady at 794; and it will principally depend the quantity of Stock delivered and taken on fb° , day, whether a rise or WI will tolfotT. T he C° : missioners of the Sinking Fund bought thei r ust quantity t o -d a y at 801 R e d uce d they wer e fre t ei • offered C onso l s at g 94, but on account (34 ble d th d near approa c h of R e du ce d Dividends, a" he f being in co nsequence t h e c h eapest Stock) 4 " gave to it the preference in their purchas,e. EXTRACT Oir A LETTER FROM ST;THOMAS ' S/ I°V. 16TH JANUARY,. 18.18. tde " The Royal Party have lat e ly had' the a' iAi tage in the Insurgent Provinces of Ve vezu : o o and repelled, with some losS, ;time sma ll divi 96 o, which were advancing from Guane upon' the rbt vines of Caraceas. I have, however, " -411 f i o r in my own Mind of theii• ultimate o ccess' ! e• although they are now miserably poor serted, they cherish a sentiment of freeOra' " 1 re can only be exti ngu i s h e d w i t h lif e . 4 ° Y . that may com e fr om E urope , sofficieni e° 4 quer, will only render the country a wlla dreary desert. PA D . 1 511 n rrt e present unsett l e d state o f the . Colonies has bad a miserable effect on the of this island ; there are upwards of 9 oo" l " SfeV Hug of British manufactuted goods in t he setu' ; and more are daily expected ; and Falu s orcr ar say the dem an d i s very limited. To adli " init grievances, a great malty privateers, fitte d principally from tit. , United States, calling selves Independent Spaniards, are every a,4y of piracies, and keep both its and theilor d SP !, nish merchants settled on the Main in .such dr"' that we are afraid to-venture our good's 0 , Illeil t ; " and they to come up tr i th their mon 1" 2)3 purchases. In this state of Wogs, represe°l3t,i:o have been m a d e to t h e G overnor-Gene ral of tsl-5 $ t iSla MIS, to give occa s i ona l convoys, U nder t Danish frigate, to and from the Spatiiiii and it is I,kly the frigate will make be r essay in a fel. days Gatt /do Dot think it 11 " e ; 1 ) , it will b e cont i nue d, as it is .110 t CtITIS "' l f t the p o li cy o f the .I.)Anish If the Lord? (i the Admiralty we re to put another sloop" of °r ' l under Admiral flAttvEy's command, for ta" pose of giving occasionarconvoys from aOd tc? ports on the Spanish Main, an t i to and from !he Britizib free p or t s• i o t h e Windward Wands' t hi s which sh ou ld i nclude the British Tra d e of 1-I':s place, whi c h i s more t h an double al l t he ° l°g d 0 put togeth er , i t wou ld g i ve a gre a t additiooi 03 let to British Manufactures, and enable us se e to the amount of at least a million sterling ril l ej a , than we do at p resent ._ S pan i ar d s iron COI ii)e. gena, Santa'Martha,- and o th er r i c h places °I) t , Main, would come bete protected with their 9'4 ney, and give British goods, because the ebegeo and best, the prefer ence t o a ll ot h ers . It• ` "ti t e, also be a means of fixing this lut ky prcfcre"ci .the exclusion of other manufactures, a" d be check to the c o m merce o f t h e U n ited St ates' which is fast underioining ours in this l'as't o f tlic• world. The inclosed st a t ement o f a recent cf wiz!' shew with how littl e respect the Class 0f r ; vateers I have been speAing of treat the 1311( Flag." • - f,,e ! t i ' I The English schooner Betsey, of Tortola, - belo°!;. en rue,' and command e d b y Willi am P r iC e, • while pO ce-lii /rot' iher voyage from Havana for St. Thonta, with a carg ° ° „ a ble and gunpowder, w ith i nvo i ces And bills of lading Je live. , o f at St, Thomas's, was taken possession of o n the Ir' rniti' r theist inst. off Salt Key Bank, by the Insttr , ent P riv l e / e i, !1 . Brutus. 'or 'Crutus, commanded by Captain .J 0 1) ", " 6 - t %e notlei Spanish colours, who hung 'up by the neck on e °. t. I l e Betsey's -crew (a Spaniard), to make hini Confess ' cbar ft c knew of the vessel, be r cargo, or destination, ar id °oft searching greater part of the crew, put them n irong , '' ~s ,withstanding assurances were given him that one o ' f. th i e le4 the time was very sickly, and another, on account o f t - ofit being much swelled, begged the shackles to be ta l ' e :: •-"^ when they were removed from the ancles to his scr ' -° . 0. (1 During the afternoon the crew were taken out of in' F ' s '. of:" put on board the Spanish coasting schooner La Car e ' clh ,,,ll Havana, whil e C a pt a i n P r i ce an d . M yself were sent col b''' . , ' It the Betsey, un d er c h arge o f a prize -master (Cky.ta in 1“: i... an American) a n d f our arme d men, who reliefed ° use c • i ,- ginally sent f rom th e privateer, whothCing r'cceive d vra''' ' I I to examine th e t run k s , found son money i n that of ril : e Q n. cant, which was t a k en b y t h e Prize -master who came firs. o ,board, and by him tarried on board th e priVat e er. ° I) t a . morning of rite 2d inst. I rec e iv e d or d ers t o remove on 13( 33r - , p. the La Carmen, with p erm i ss i o n to take my" hagg a r 1 ,-ith of at which timei left Capt. Pri ce a n d t wo o f his Crew °j ' ls') ,. l fa the Betsey. Th u l a th : j o i ne d me I n t h e a f te rnoon, "" d '': last time I nl saw Captain P r i ce was onbord the T e ntativ a ! , ~... boeward• hound Qui nealuan , w i t h / 4 6 s l ave s on boaa, Di" ' a ih